The US Navy is tracking UFOs, but can’t say alien ships are in these fighter pilot videos
- Three videos released in 2017 and 2018 shows US Navy pilots baffled by mysterious objects in the sky
- US Navy says these objects are ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’
In December 2017, two videos emerged that showed US Navy pilots encountering mysterious spherical objects that appeared, at first glance, to move through the air in ways that baffled experts. A third, released in March 2018, depicted a similar encounter.
Everyone who watched – including the pilots who filmed them – had the same question: what, exactly, are these things?
Last week, a US Navy official publicly called these mysterious objects “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)”, giving name to the inscrutable little dots and reigniting scrutiny around the unidentified flying objects (a term the US Navy does not want to use even though the objects that are flying cannot be identified).
“The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told the Black Vault blog, a massive civilian repository of government documents mostly obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests.
Gradisher further explained that “The ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorised/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges”.
Black Vault’s founder, John Greenewald Jnr, told The Washington Post that he believed the remarks were significant because, for the first time, the US Navy acknowledged the existence of the objects in the videos on the record and admitted that the department cannot identify them.